Chaintech Geforce FX 5900XT SA5900X Review

Chaintech has a very competitively priced video card in its products range which offers a great price/performance ratio. Just how great? We ran it through our benchmark mill so we could let you know!

In the box

Chaintech has been working hard on their imago, with a goal set to please the hardware enthusiast. It comes to no surprise that they included nVidia’s best price/performance ratio GPU in their video card line-up, the FX 5900XT.

The aptly named SA5900X is their entry in the budget video card segment of the market, since the GPU and PCB layout is pretty much the same on all 3rd party boards, it mostly comes down to features, cooling, overclocking potential and included goodies, when trying to find a winner.

The Chaintech takes a great start in the goodies department, you will find all the cables included to hook it up to your D-sub monitor or DVI TFT, further more you’ll find 2 different cables for TV-out and a Y-splitter for giving the card its needed juice.

The card is an exact copy of the nVidia reference card, except for the cooling, Chaintech’s solution is very good looking and if you have a side windows in your case it will surely stand out! The little cooler pushed quite a bit of air, but unfortunately makes a lot of noise too.

The memory chips used are from Hynix and according this table from OC.com.tw translate into 2.8ns or 350Mhz.